Process of making corrugated wire-glass.



W. COX

PROCESS 0F MAKING Arrucmon Patented Oct. 12, 1915.

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WALTER COX AND ARNO SHUMAN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A SSIGNORS TO PENNSYLVANIA WIRE GLASS MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF

PHILADELPHIA,

PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

PROCESS OF MAKING COBRUGATED WIBE-GLASS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 12, i

Application led April 18, 1911. Serial No. 621,751.

To atl whom. it may concern.'

Be it known that we, WALTER Cox and Anxo SHUMAN, both citizens of the United States, and residents of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania. have jointly invented certain new and useful Improvements in Processes of Making Corrugated Wire-Glass, of which the following is a specification.

The principal object of the present invention is to provide corrugated wire glass.

The invention will be described in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1, is a transverse sectional view illustrative of apparatus for making corrugated wire glass. Fig. 2, is a longitudinal sectional view of the same. Fig. 3, is a perspcctive view showing crimped wire netting or mesh and Fig. 4, is a perspective view of a piece of a sheet of corrugated wire glass.

ln the drawings 1 is a table corrugated in thc direction of its length.

2. is a roller peripherally corrugated.

3, are the trangs for holding the roller properlj7 spaced from the table and 4 are means for operating and guiding the roller. The wire netting is crimped as at 5, Fig. 3, and the crimped wire netting is then corrugated in a direction at right angles to the crimp. The crimping referred to is described in Letters Patent of the United States dated May 5th, 1903, numbered 727,- 004, and granted to Arno Shuman and Frank Shuman. If mesh with twists happens to be used, then when the mesh is corrugated. the twists or links 7 which the adjacent wires take around each other, operate .something like a hinge or articulation and thus facilitate the corrugation of the wire netting or mesh. One way of corrugating the wire netting is to lay it on the table and run the roller over it without anv glass, but. the invention is not limited to this way of corrugating the wire, as it can be corrugated in various ways previous to its incorporation. into the glass. By placing the line of twists or links, when present, in line with the corrugations the wire more certainly retains the corrugated form. crimped wire is laid upon the lengthwise corrugated table 1 and the crimps 5 lie upon the. corrugated face of the table and hold the other parts of the mesh at a little distance from it. A pour of glass 8, is then made in front of the .corrugated roller 2 and the latter is rolled along the table in the usual way, rolling the pour of glass out into the form of a corrugated sheet in which they wire is embedded. As the rolling operation takes place the tension on the wire netting operates, as it were, to straighten out the. crimp and bring the wire up into proper position at or near the center of the sheet.

What we claim is:

1. The process of making corrugated wire glass which consists in rolling a corrugated sheet of glass of practically the same thickness throughout all points of the corrugations and inclosing in it as it is rolled a previously corrugated and crimped wire netting or mesh.

2. The process of making corrugated wire glass which consists in placing a crimped sheetof wire netting on a lengthwise corrugated table, corrugating the sheet of wire by passing over it a corrugated roll, and then embedding the sheet of wire near the center of a corrugated sheet of glass by rolling the sheet of corrugated glass of practicall)r the same thickness throughoutupon said table and netting with said roll.

3. The process of making corrugated wiri` glass which consists in corrugating .i crimped sheet of wire netting. placing thc same on a lengthwise corrugated table and rolling a corrugated sheet of glass of suhstantiallv the same thickness throughout on said table by means of a corrugated roll whereby the corrugated netting is inclosed in the corrugated sheet, substantially as described.

WALTER COX. ARN() SHUMAN.

Witnesses:

CLIFFORD K. Cassel., FRANK E. FRENCH.

ooplen of this patent may be obtained for tvc cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington. D. 0.

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